Glengarry Glen Ross (film) Quotes

Glengarry Glen Ross (film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Glengarry Glen Ross stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jerry Tokofsky, and Stanley R. Zupnik as producer, James Newton Howard in charge of musical score, and Juan Ruiz Anchía as head of cinematography.

Glengarry Glen Ross (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Glengarry Glen Ross (film) is 100 minutes long. Glengarry Glen Ross (film) is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Alec Baldwin as Blake, Kevin Spacey as Williamson, Ed Harris as Dave Moss, Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levene, Al Pacino as Ricky Roma, Alan Arkin as George Aaronow, and Jonathan Pryce as James Lingk.

Glengarry Glen Ross (film) Quotes

Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levene

• (Jack Lemmon) "Don't."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Hehe -- I'm sorry."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Why?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Because I don't like you."
• (Jack Lemmon) "My daughter."
• (Kevin Spacey) "f*** you."

• (Jack Lemmon) "Get the chalk. Hey. Get the chalk -- get the chalk. I did it. I closed 'em. I closed the cocksucker. Get the chalk, put me on the board, John. Put me on the Cadillac board, huh? Pick up the f***in' chalk. Rick. Eight units. Mountain View."
• (Al Pacino) "You sold eight Mountain View?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "You bet your ass. Who wants to go to lunch? Who wants to go to lunch? I'm buying."

• (Jack Lemmon) "Williamson. Williamson. Put me on the board. Put me on the Cadillac board."

• (Jack Lemmon) "What? What?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Two leads. A hundred bucks."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Now?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Yes, now -- when?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Oh, s***, John."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I wish I could."
• (Jack Lemmon) "You f***IN' asshole. I don't have it -- I -- I --"
• (Jack Lemmon) "I'll bring it to ya in the morning. I'll be comin' in with the sales."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Nope."

• (Jack Lemmon) "You are a s***head, Williamson."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Hmm hmm."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Can't think on your feet, you oughta keep your mouth closed. Now can you hear me? I'm talking to you. Can you hear me?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Yes, I hear you."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Ricky is right. Can't learn it enough, got to learn on the streets. You can't buy it, you gotta live it."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Hmm."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Hmm hmm hmm, yeah, precisely. Because your partner depends on -- I'm talkin' to you. I'm trying to tell you something."
• (Kevin Spacey) "You are?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Yeah, I am."
• (Kevin Spacey) "What are you trying to tell me?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "What Roma was trying to tell you; what I told you a long time ago. You don't belong in this business."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I don't belong in --"
• (Jack Lemmon) "You may listen to me and say, "Hey, maybe the guy -- " Oh f*** it. Listen to me now. Your partner depends on you. Your partner, the man who is your partner, depends on you and you go with him and for him or you're s***. Huh? You are s***. You can't exist alone."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Excuse me --"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Excuse you nothing. You be as cold as you want. You've just f***ed a good man out on six thousand dollars and his god**** bonus because you didn't know the shot. Gee, you could do that and you're not man enough to say what get you, I don't know what -- if you can't take something from that then you're -- scum, you're a f***ing white bread. A child would know it and he's right. If you're gonna make something up, John, be sure that it helps. Or keep your mouth shut. I'm done with you."

Kevin Spacey as Williamson

• (Kevin Spacey) "Go to lunch, George."
• (Alan Arkin) "I don't wanna go to lunch."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Just go to lunch, George."

• (Kevin Spacey) "Where's Mr. Roma?"
• (Ed Harris) "I'm not a leash, so I don't know. Do I?"

• (Kevin Spacey) "Now how did you know that contract was on my desk?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "You're so full of s***."
• (Kevin Spacey) "You robbed the office."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Sure. I robbed the office. Sure."
• (Kevin Spacey) "What'd you do with the leads? You want to go in there? I tell him what I know, he's going to dig up something -- You got an alibi last night? You better have one. What did you do with the leads? If you tell me what you did with the leads, we can talk."
• (Jack Lemmon) "I don't know what you are saying."
• (Kevin Spacey) "If you tell me where the leads are, I won't turn you in. If you don't, I am going to tell the cop you stole them, Mitch and Murray will see that you go to jail. Believe me, they will. Now, what did you do with the leads? I'm walking in that door. You have five seconds to tell me, or you are going to jail."
• (Jack Lemmon) "I --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "I don't care. You understand? Where are the leads? All right."
• (Jack Lemmon) "I sold them to Jerry Graff."
• (Kevin Spacey) "How much did you get for them? How much did you get for them?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Five thousand. I kept half."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Who kept the other half?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Do I have to tell you? -- Moss."
• (Kevin Spacey) "That was easy, wasn't it?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "It was his idea."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Was it?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "I -- I'm sure he got more than the five, actually."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Uh-huh?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "He told me my share was twenty-five."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Mmm."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Okay, I -- look: I'm going to make it worth your while. I am. I turned this thing around. I closed the old stuff, I can do it again. I'm the one's going to close 'em. I am. I am. 'Cause I turned this thing a- I can do that, I can do anyth -- Last night, I'm going to tell you, I was ready to Do the Dutch. Moss gets me, "Do this, we'll get well -- " Why not. Big f***in' deal. I'm halfway hoping to get caught. To put me out of my -- But it taught me something. What it taught me, that you've got to get out there. Big deal. So I wasn't cut out to be a thief. I was cut out to be a salesman. And now I'm back, and I got my balls back -- and, you know, John, you have the advantage on me now. Whatever it takes to make it right, we'll make it right. We're going to make it right."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I want to tell you something, Shelley. You have a big mouth."

• (Kevin Spacey) "I'm giving you three leads --"
• (Al Pacino) "Three? No, I count two."
• (Kevin Spacey) "There's three leads there."
• (Al Pacino) ""Patel"? f*** you. f***ing Shiva handed this guy a million dollars, told him "Sign the deal." he wouldn't sign. And the god Vishnu too, into the bargain. f*** you, John. You know your business, I know mine. Your business is being an asshole. I find out whose f***ing cousin you are, I'm going to go to him and figure out a way to have your ass; f*** you."
• (Al Pacino) "I'm waiting for the new leads."

• (Kevin Spacey) "Where are you going?"
• (Al Pacino) "To the restaurant. What do you f***ing care?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Aren't you going out today?"
• (Al Pacino) "With what, John? With what? Answer me. They stole the Glengarry leads, they stole Rio Rancho."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I have the stuff from last year's file."
• (Al Pacino) "Oh oh oh -- your nostalgia file. Oh great. That's great, cause you know I don't have to --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Do you want to go out today?"
• (Al Pacino) "I don't have to eat this month. Great. Give it to me. Bring 'em. C'mon."
• (Al Pacino) "f***ing Mitch & Murray and a s*** ape."

• (Kevin Spacey) "They're crazy. They just like talking to salesmen."

• (Kevin Spacey) "As you heard, end of the month, top salesman on the board gets the Eldorado. Next man down gets the --"
• (Jack Lemmon) "What about the good leads?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "The leads I've given you."
• (Jack Lemmon) "But these leads are s***. They're old -- I've seen them 100 times."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Well, the leads are assigned randomly."
• (Jack Lemmon) "What about the new leads, huh? The new leads, the Glengarry leads."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I've got them. I'm going to hang onto them. And they'll be assigned to closers, based on the sales volume, first to Roma."

• (Kevin Spacey) "We had a slight burglary last night."
• (Al Pacino) "It's nothing. I was just assuring Mr. Lingk --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Lingk? James Lingk? Your contract went out. Nothing to worry about."
• (Al Pacino) "John, John --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Your contract went out to the bank."
• (Jonathan Pryce) "You cashed my check?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "We --"
• (Al Pacino) "Mr. Williamson?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "The check was cashed, the contract was filed and deposited in the bank and we're completely insured in any case, as you know."
• (Jonathan Pryce) "You cashed the check?"
• (Al Pacino) "Not to my knowledge. No."
• (Kevin Spacey) "I'm sure we can --"
• (Al Pacino) "Not to my knowledge."
• (Jonathan Pryce) "I-I -- Oh Christ. Hey don't follow me. Just don't follow me, okay? I let you down. I know I let you down. I'm sorry. Forgive me. I don't know. I, I don't know anymore -- Forgive me."

• (Kevin Spacey) "Will you go to lunch? Go to lunch. WILL you GO to LUNCH?"

• (Kevin Spacey) "You've got a big mouth -- now I'm gonna show you an even bigger one."

• (Kevin Spacey) "How do you know I made it up?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Say what?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "How do you know I made it up?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Wha -- what are you talking about?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "I told the customer his contract went to the bank."
• (Jack Lemmon) "It didn't?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "No, it didn't."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Don't f*** with me -- Don't f*** with me. What are you saying?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Well, I'm saying this Shell; usually I take the contracts to the bank. Last night I didn't. Last night I stayed home with my kids. One night in a year I left the contracts sitting on my desk, no one knew that but you. How did you know that? Do you wanna tell me or do you want to tell them?"

Alan Arkin as George Aaronow

• (Alan Arkin) "How can you talk to me that way? I work here. I didn't come here to be mistreated."

• (Alan Arkin) "Come in here. I work here. I didn't come in here to be mistreated."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Go to lunch, will you?"
• (Alan Arkin) "That's why I've, I've, I've -- I've came to work today. That's why."
• (Kevin Spacey) "The leads are coming in, I'll let you know."
• (Alan Arkin) "That's why I came in here. I thought --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Just to go to lunch."
• (Alan Arkin) "I don't wanna go to lunch."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Go to lunch, George."
• (Alan Arkin) "When does he get off? Talking that way to a working man."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Will you take it outside? There's people trying to do business."
• (Alan Arkin) "That's why I've came here for. That's what I'm trying to do. I meet Gestapo tactics."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Excuse me."
• (Alan Arkin) "I meet Gestapo tactics -- I meet Gestapo tactics -- That's not right -- No man has the right to -- "Call an attorney," that means you're guilt -- you're under sus -- "Co -- ," he says, "cooperate" or we'll go downtown. That's not -- as long as I've --"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Will you get out of here? Will you? I'm trying to run an office here. Now will you go to lunch? GO TO LUNCH. Will you go to lunch?"

• (Alan Arkin) "They found the guy who broke into the office?"
• (Al Pacino) "No. I don't know."

• (Alan Arkin) "They're gonna bounce me out of a job."

• (Alan Arkin) "I'm no f***in' good."
• (Al Pacino) "Hey, cut that s***, George. You're a good man, you just hit a bad streak."
• (Alan Arkin) "You think so?"

• (Alan Arkin) "Hello, Mrs. Delgary? Yes, you requested some information about Rio Rancho Properties --"

• (Alan Arkin) "When I talk to the police I get nervous."
• (Al Pacino) "Yes. You know who doesn't?"
• (Alan Arkin) "Who?"
• (Al Pacino) "Thieves."

Ed Harris as Dave Moss

• (Ed Harris) "What did I do?"
• (Alan Arkin) "You listened."

• (Ed Harris) "That guy's a f***in' asshole. Anybody who talks to that asshole is a f***in' asshole."

• (Ed Harris) "You're f***ed, Rick. Are you f***ing nuts? You're hot, so you think you're the ruler of this place."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Now wait a minute, Dave."
• (Ed Harris) "Shut up."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Okay --"
• (Ed Harris) "You want to decide who should be dealt with how, is that it? I come in the f***ing office today, I get humiliated by some jag-off cop. I get accused of -- I get the s*** thrown in my face by you, you genuine s***, because you're top name on the board?"
• (Al Pacino) "Is that what I did, Dave? I humiliated you? Oh my God, I'm sorry."
• (Ed Harris) "Sitting on top of the world. Sitting on top of the world, everything's f***in' peach fuzz."
• (Al Pacino) "And I don't get a moment to spare for some bust-out humanitarian down on his luck lately?"
• (Ed Harris) "Oh, f*** --"
• (Al Pacino) "f*** you, Dave. You know, you got a big mouth. You make a close, this whole place stinks with your farts for a week; how much you just ingested. Oh, what a big man you are. "Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum. I'll show you how to chew it." Whoof. Your pal closes, and all that comes out of your mouth is bile. Ooh, how f***ed-up you are."
• (Ed Harris) "Who's my pal, Ricky? Hmm? What are you? And what are you, Ricky? Huh? Bishop Sheen? What the f*** are you, Mr. Slick? Who; what the f*** are you, "Friend to the working man"? Big deal. f*** YOU. You got the memory of a f***in' fly. I never liked you, anyway."
• (Al Pacino) "What is this, your farewell speech?"
• (Ed Harris) "I'm going home."
• (Al Pacino) "Your farewell to the troops?"
• (Ed Harris) "I'm not going home. I'm going to Wisconsin."
• (Al Pacino) "Have a good trip."
• (Ed Harris) "Aw, f*** you. f*** the lot of you. f*** you all."
• (Al Pacino) "You were saying?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Huh?"

• (Ed Harris) "You got the memory of a f***ing fly."

• (Ed Harris) "Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bulls***."

• (Ed Harris) "Cop couldn't find his dick, two hands and a map."

• (Ed Harris) "Bulls***."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Thank you for your attention."
• (Ed Harris) "Bulls***."

• (Ed Harris) "Did they steal the contracts?"
• (Al Pacino) "The f*** you care?"
• (Jack Lemmon) ""Harriet, I wanna tell you something -- ""
• (Ed Harris) "What's that supposed to mean?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Will you shut up? I'm telling him something."
• (Alan Arkin) "Can we get some coffee?"
• (Ed Harris) "How're you doing?"
• (Alan Arkin) "Fine."
• (Ed Harris) "Uh huh."
• (Alan Arkin) "If anybody's going out, I could use some coffee."
• (Jack Lemmon) "You do get the opportunity."
• (Ed Harris) "The f*** that's supposed to mean?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "You DO get the opportunities, you get it as I get it, as everybody get it."
• (Ed Harris) "Rick, that I don't care they stole the contracts?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Now, I had them on the kitchen and I'm eating their crumb cakes --"
• (Ed Harris) "What does that mean?"
• (Al Pacino) "It means, Dave, you haven't closed a good one in a month. None of my business; you wanna push me to answer you. So, you haven't got a contract to get stolen so far."

• (Ed Harris) "He's the top man on the board so he doesn't have to sit here and listen to this s***?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "That's correct. And as the hour is waning I suggest you those of you who are interested in a continuing job with this organization, get to work."
• (Ed Harris) "This is garbage. A bunch of bulls***."
• (Kevin Spacey) "Thank you for your time."
• (Ed Harris) "Bulls***."

• (Ed Harris) "Cop couldn't find his dick with two hands and a map."
• (Al Pacino) "What'd he beat you with, his rubber bat?"
• (Ed Harris) "He's got no right. Cop's got no right to speak to me like that."
• (Al Pacino) "You gonna turn state's --"
• (Ed Harris) "f*** you, Rick."
• (Al Pacino) "HAH."

Al Pacino as Ricky Roma

• (Al Pacino) "Patel? Ravadem Patel? How am I gonna make a livin' on these deadbeats? Where did you get this one from, the morgue?"
• (Kevin Spacey) "Look, I'm --"
• (Al Pacino) "Oh come on, what's the point? What's the f***ing point? In any case, I gotta argue with you, I gotta knock heads with the cops, I'm busting my balls sell your dirt to deadbeats."
• (Al Pacino) "Money in the mattress."

• (Al Pacino) "You filed it, that puts me over the f***in' top, I want my Cadillac. I don't wanna hear no f***in' s*** and I don't give a s***. Lingk puts me over the top. You filed it, it went downtown, now you owe me the car."

• (Al Pacino) "How was her crumbcake?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Hmm? Oh -- from the store."
• (Al Pacino) "f*** her."

• (Al Pacino) "Wait, wait. wait. Where are the phones?"
• (Alan Arkin) "They stole."
• (Al Pacino) "They stole?"
• (Alan Arkin) "What kind of an outfit is it when --"
• (Al Pacino) "They stole the phones."
• (Alan Arkin) "-- criminals come and they, they -- take, they steal the phones."
• (Al Pacino) "They stole the leads, they stole the phones, they stole the -- uh -- Christ. What am I going to do this month? s***."

• (Al Pacino) "How are you?"
• (Alan Arkin) "Fine. You mean the board? You mean, you mean on the board?"
• (Al Pacino) "Yes, okay. The board."
• (Alan Arkin) "I'm f***ed on the board. I can't -- I can't -- I can't -- my mind must be in other places cause I can't uh --"
• (Al Pacino) "What? You can't do what?"
• (Alan Arkin) "I can't close them."
• (Al Pacino) "Are they old? Look, look, look, look at the s*** they're giving you. Uh."
• (Alan Arkin) "Yes."
• (Al Pacino) "Uh."
• (Alan Arkin) "They're all old."
• (Al Pacino) "They're ancient."
• (Alan Arkin) "Clear --"
• (Al Pacino) ""Clear Meadows". This s***'s dead."
• (Alan Arkin) "It is dead."
• (Al Pacino) "Waste of time."
• (Alan Arkin) "Yes."

• (Al Pacino) "You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is."

• (Al Pacino) "OH I'm going to have your job, s***head. I'm going downtown and talk to Mitch & Murrray, and I'm going to Lemkin. I don't care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose dick you're sucking on. You're going out, I swear to you, you're going --"
• (Detective) "Hey, fella, let's get this done --"
• (Al Pacino) "Anyone in this office lives on their wits --"
• (Al Pacino) "I'm going to be with you in a second."

• (Al Pacino) "I come back and you can't even keep the contract safe."

• (Al Pacino) "I'm going to tell you something. Your life is your own. You have a contract with your wife? You have certain things you do jointly? Bond there. And there are other things, and those things are yours. And you needn't feel ashamed, you needn't feel that you're being untrue. Or that she would abandon you if she knew. This is your life."

• (Al Pacino) "You stupid f***ing c***. You, Williamson, I'm talking to you, s***head. You just cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars, and one Cadillac. That's right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You're f***ing s***. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid f***ing c***, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men? Oh, I'm gonna have your job, s***head. I'm going downtown to talk to Mitch and Murray, I'm going to Lemkin. I don't care whose nephew you are, who you know, whose dick you're sucking on, you're going out. I swear to you, you're going --"
• (Detective) "Hey, fella, let's get this done."
• (Al Pacino) "Anyone in this office lives on his wits."
• (Al Pacino) "I'm going to be with you in a second."
• (Al Pacino) "what you're hired for is to help us. Does that seem clear to you? To help us, not f*** us up. To help men who are going out there to try to earn a living, you fairy. You company man. I'll tell you something else, I hope you ripped the joint off, I can tell your friend here a little something might help him to catch you. You want to learn the first rule? You'd know if you spent a day in your life. Don't ever open your mouth 'till you know what the shot is. You're a f***ing child."
• (Jack Lemmon) "You are a s***head, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet, you should keep your mouth closed."

• (Al Pacino) "I do this."

• (Al Pacino) "I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion -- If everyone thinks one thing, then I say, bet the other way --"

• (Al Pacino) "f***. f***, f***, f***. Williamson. Williamson. Open this f***ing door."

• (Al Pacino) "You're f***in' s***."

• (Al Pacino) "All train compartments smell vaguely of s***. It gets so you don't mind it. That's the worst thing that I can confess. You know how long it took me to get there? A long time. When you die you're going to regret the things you don't do. You think you're queer? I'm going to tell you something: we're all queer. You think you're a thief? So what? You get befuddled by a middle-class morality? Get shut of it. Shut it out. You cheat on your wife? You did it, live with it. You f*** little girls, so be it. There's an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead, be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won't live in it. That's me."
• (Al Pacino) "You ever take a dump made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

• (Al Pacino) "Who said 'f*** the machine'?"
• (Ed Harris) "f*** the machine? f*** the machine? f*** THE MACHINE. What is this, courtesy class?"

• (Al Pacino) "They say that it was so hot in the city today, grown men were walking up to cops on street corners begging them to shoot them."

Alec Baldwin as Blake

• (Alec Baldwin) "Put that coffee down. Coffee is for closers only."

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